The Control of Social Desirability in a Structured Q-Sort pn Dependency-Independency

Effects of religious affiliation, religious involvement, and sex on the social desirability ratings of MMPI religion items.

“…Furthermore, it seems obvious that an individual's view of socially desirable or undesirable behavioral traits should stem, at least in part, from his group affiliations. However, attempts to demonstrate relationships between social desirability response sets and such variables as age, sex, social class (Klett, 1957;Melhman & Warehime, 1962), occupation (Messick, 1960), IQ, education (Fordyce, 1960), or ethnic background (Fujita, 1956;Lovaas, 1957) have met with little success.…”